A 30-year-old woman was charged with endangering the welfare of children after police said she left her 8-year-old daughter in the cold to play blackjack at Rivers Casino.

According to a state police report, security noticed an 8-year-old Asian girl wandering around outside the casino on Pittsburgh's North Shore by herself on Saturday.

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The girl was wearing only a light jacket, short skirt and flips and was shivering in the gusty, 50-degree temperatures when the guard spotted her, police said.

According to police reports, the girl said she rode the bus to the casino with her mother to get their car, which her mother had left there the night before because she was too drunk to drive.

After reviewing surveillance tapes, casino workers said they saw the mother leave the girl alone at the front entrance shortly before 2 p.m. and head to the table games.

Casino security said they found Tran Quach playing with $535 in chips at one of the blackjack pits a little before 2:30 p.m.

Police said Quach, of the city's Garfield/Friendship area, told casino workers that she had only left her daughter for 10 minutes.

The casino told police that Quach was taken to the security office and reunited with her daughter. She was then told she was banned for life from the casino and escorted back to her car.

After consulting with the district attorney's office, police said a misdemeanor charge was filed Thursday against Quach in Municipal Court. The date of her preliminary hearing was not immediately known.

Channel 4 Action News' Marcie Cipriani attempted to reach Quan at her apartment, but no one answered a knock at the door.

A downstairs neighbor told Cipriani that Quan lives in the apartment with her daughter and two other adults.

The neighbor said he often sees Quan's daughter in the apartment building.

"She's always down here playing with my dog and she just seems to be such a nice little girl. It just doesn't seem right," the neighbor said.